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Bill Introduced In Congress Allowing Drug Czar To Speak The Truth About Marijuana

Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske:
Prohibited by law from telling the truth about marijuana

Under Current Law Drug Czar Must Oppose Legalization of Marijuana, Even for Medical Use, No Matter What the Science Shows or What the American People Support

Cohen Bill Would Allow Drug Czar to Take Same Positions on Marijuana Policy as President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder

It’s rather revealing when it literally takes an act of Congress to allow the Drug Czar to tell the truth, wouldn’t you say? Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) on Wednesday, February 12, introduced the Unmuzzle the Drug Czar Act of 2014 (H.R. 4046).
The bill would repeal a little-known provision of federal law that requires the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), informally known as the U.S. Drug Czar, to “take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use” of marijuana or any Schedule I drug for medical or non-medical use. The provision prohibits ONDCP from even studying legalization.

Because of the ban, the Drug Czar and his staff are unfairly prevented from stating their true positions on marijuana policy and are not even allowed to study the legalization of medical marijuana in 20 states and the District of Columbia or the legalization of marijuana like alcohol in Colorado and Washington.

Rep. Steve Cohen:
“The ONDCP’s job should be to develop and recommend sane drug control policies, not be handcuffed or muzzled from telling the American people the truth”

“Not only is the ONDCP the only federal office required by law to oppose rescheduling marijuana even if it is proven to have medical benefits, but it is also prohibited from studying if that could even be true,” Congressman Cohen said. “The ONDCP’s job should be to develop and recommend sane drug control policies, not be handcuffed or muzzled from telling the American people the truth. “How can we trust what the Drug Czar says if the law already preordains its position?” Cohen asked. “My bill would give the ONDCP the freedom to use science — not ideology — in its recommendations and give the American people a reason to trust what they are told.”

Rep. Steve Cohen:
“My bill would give the ONDCP the freedom to use science — not ideology — in its recommendations and give the American people a reason to trust what they are told”

Video of Congressman Cohen raising this issue to ONDCP Deputy Director Michael Botticelli last week at a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing is available here, and video of his opening remarks at the same hearing can be found here. At the hearing, Congressman Cohen also explained to Deputy Director Botticelli how these policies and other anachronistic laws have resulted in a failed Drug War and a generation of young Americans who believe the government has lied about the dangers of marijuana. Many believe the ban makes government officials too afraid during Congressional hearings to even say scientifically accurate statements like the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, heroin and other drugs when asked by members of Congress.

Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance:
“I pit the intellectually honest staff at the Drug Czar’s office who are muzzled and censored, and effectively compelled to lie when they testify before Congress and speak to the public”

“It’s extraordinary if you really think about it: a federal law prohibiting a federal agency from even studying an issue, and then directing that agency to oppose any reform no matter what scientific or other evidence emerges,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA).  “That such a law remains on the books is disgraceful. “I pity the intellectually honest staff at the Drug Czar’s office who are muzzled and censored, and effectively compelled to lie when they testify before Congress and speak to the public,” Nadelmann said.

A majority of Americans want to treat marijuana like alcohol. President Obama has said that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol and that legalization in Colorado and Washington should move forward. In January, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama Administration will announce guidelines that will make it easier for banks to deal with state-legalized marijuana businesses.
The ban only applies to the Drug Czar, which means that the nation’s top drug policy advisor is forced to take positions at odds with the President who appointed him and the Attorney General that wages the Drug War.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer:
“The American people want us to have a rational conversation about drug policy, and this is long overdue”

With the ONDCP prohibited from further study of medical benefits or safety, Congressman Cohen has also introduced legislation to create a National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy. The Commission would undertake a comprehensive review of the federal government’s current policies toward marijuana, particularly in light of the growing number of states where marijuana is already legal for medicinal or personal use. More information about the Congressman’s legislation can be found here.

Congressman Cohen on Wednesday also joined a bipartisan coalition led by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) in sending a letter to President Obama encouraging the reclassification of marijuana from Schedule I. If a drug is listed under Schedule I, it means that the federal government recognizes no medical use. Including marijuana in this classification disregards both medical evidence and the laws of nearly half of the states that have legalized it for medical purposes.
“Marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin,” said Congressman Blumenauer. “Yet, the federal government classifies both as Schedule I substances, the highest possible listing. This makes no sense, and the majority of Americans agree.

“That is why I sent a letter to the President asking him to reschedule marijuana in a more appropriate context, and why I support this legislation to remove restrictions on the administration that inhibit conversations about rescheduling,” Rep. Blumenauer said. “The American people want us to have a rational conversation about drug policy, and this is long overdue.”

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Warning over lonely cancer patients

 

Press Association - More than a fifth of cancer patients feel lonely as a result of their diagnosis, a survey has found

Around 400,000 people with cancer in the UK are lonely, with some skipping meals and unable to afford food, a charity has warned.

Macmillan Cancer Support's survey of more than 1,000 people with the disease found 22% suffered loneliness as a result of their diagnosis.
The charity said many were left housebound due to their cancer, causing isolation and knock on problems such as a poor diet.

The research also compared the experiences of cancer patients who said they were lonely with those who say they were not.
It found lonely people were three times more likely to admit drinking more alcohol than usual (22% compared to 7% for those who were not lonely).
They were also five times more likely to have not left the house for days (66% compared to 14%) and almost three times more likely to have problems sleeping (76% compared to 27%).
Lonely cancer patients were also five times more likely to skip meals (38% compared to 7%) and almost eight times more likely to eat a poor diet (45% compared to 6%).

Some 13% said they could not afford to buy food although other key reasons included having no food in the house, being too weak to cook and having no appetite.
People reported being particularly lonely if their cancer was advanced or had relapsed, they lived alone, or they had to make changes to their working life.
Ciaran Devane, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "Loneliness is blighting the lives of hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in the UK.

"It's hard enough for people being hit with the devastating news that they have cancer, without having to suffer the additional effects that being lonely brings. It's heartbreaking to think of people struggling to eat or leave the house because they have been abandoned and left to deal with cancer alone.
"This is a growing problem which is only set to get worse as the number of people diagnosed with cancer doubles from two to four million in the next 20 years."
Mr Devane said the NHS, policymakers and local authorities needed to "wake up to this looming loneliness epidemic" and work with the charity to ensure nobody faced cancer alone.

Clare Redgrove, 49, from Kent, was diagnosed with womb cancer in 2010.
She said: "Being diagnosed with cancer has been a very lonely experience. I went from being a busy person running my own business to living on benefits.
"As I live alone, there were days when I'd find it hard to find the energy to feed myself let alone get out of my house. I feel under tremendous stress, my sleep has suffered, and it all seems even worse now that my treatment is over."
Jack Neill-Hall, campaigns manager for the Campaign to End Loneliness, said: " When we feel lonely we can sometimes forget to look after ourselves properly.

"In fact, researchers have shown that feeling lonely can lead us to not exercising enough, eating a poor diet and having an increased likelihood of smoking and drinking too much. Unfortunately, these very behaviours can often contribute to us becoming ill, or aggravate other conditions outside of our control.
"It is vital that we understand the link between loneliness and ill health so that we can break the negative cycle of loneliness exacerbating ill-health and vice versa.
"By ensuring that our public health and care services are aware of the risks of loneliness, we can do more for people who may be suffering from cancer, disability, or duel sensory loss and make sure they are well looked after, but also better able to look after themselves."

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Mother of seven died after becoming addicted to legal high 'Summer Haze' which is 'fifty times more powerful than cannabis'

• Selina Nicholas, 49, would take 30 hits a day of potent cannabis substitute
• The substance was legal in November 2012, when she died
• Exeter coroner said it has not been proved that the legal highs killed her
• But Ms Nicholas's family say they are 'certain' that drugs are to blame

 A mother-of seven died after getting addicted to a powerful legal high which is fifty times stronger than cannabis, an inquest heard.
Selina Nicholas, 49, took 30 hits a day of a potent blend of synthetic cannabis called Summer Haze.
The substance was legal at the time but has since been banned because it contains chemicals which mimic genuine marijuana.

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Legal highs: Selina Nicholas, pictured, was found dead by one of her sons in 2012

An inquest into Selina's death heard she got her fix from a local shop and from her boyfriend, who liked to mix his own supply to save money.
Her family is now warning of the dangers of legal highs. Her son Adam said he is 'certain' they caused her death, despite the coroner saying it could not yet be proved.

Ms Nicholas died in November 2012, after smoking for an entire weekend. One of her children, Zachary, found her body when he broke into her home in Exeter, Devon.

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Potent: Summer Haze, the type of drug Ms Nicholas used, can be 50 times stronger than regular cannabis

She was found next to an array of drug paraphernalia and legal highs, which she had been using regularly for around 18 months.
A post mortem could not establish a cause of death, but toxicology reports tested positive for chemical compounds known as cannabinoids.
The substances are typically sprayed on to herbs then sold and smoked like regular cannabis leaves, producing similar psychoactive effects.

PC Scott Robertson, a drug liaison officer for Devon and Cornwall Police, told the inquest that 75 to 80 new legal highs came to the market in 2013 alone.
He said: 'Because of the influx, toxicology has not caught up yet so we do not know the short-term effects.
'What we do know is synthetic cannabis can be up to 20-50 times more potent than normal cannabis and we are seeing far more adverse reactions.
'We are seeing an increasing number of people ending up in hospital and having an adverse reaction to the legal highs.'

The inquest heard that Ms Nicholas had suffered with drug and alcohol addiction for most of her life.
Her family say she went 'into a shell' after she started using legal highs, which she would either buy from the Hush head shop in Exeter or have them made for her by on-off boyfriend Pete Simmons.
Mr Simmons said he had been a friend for 25 years and he would bring around his homemade stash each weekend for them to smoke.

He told the hearing: 'Rightly or wrongly I believe the family are blaming me for her death.
'We had spent the weekend together and she had a couple of bongs on Friday night and some on Saturday and Sunday morning before I left.

'There was no indication when I left that anything was wrong. Part of the reason I made my own synthetic cannabis was Selina was going into Hush and spending a lot of money on pre-packaged stuff that was essentially the same thing.
'It was about a tenth of the price to do it myself.'
Coroner Elizabeth Earland recorded an open verdict but said she could not establish for certain that legal highs had caused Selina's death.

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What went wrong? Ms Nicholas's boyfriend said there was no sign of anything being wrong when he last saw her

She said: 'It is a matter for drug enforcement agencies to analyse the data they have and potential risk and it is extremely difficult for them to come to conclusions with all the new products that keep coming to the market.
'I am satisfied she was a habitual user of cannabis and synthetic cannabis but she also suffered medical and mental health problems.
'I am not satisfied that any drug taking killed her or her medical problems killed her so I have to record an open verdict.

'In time we hope there will be more information but at the moment it appears those who are making it are one step ahead of the drug enforcement agencies. So it is up to individuals to be as aware as possible.'
Early forms of synthetic cannabis, also known as spice, were first outlawed in 2009 when they were reclassified as class B drugs, making it illegal to sell or possess them.
But since then police have had to constantly update the list of banned substances because manufacturers keep tinkering with the chemicals involved to get around the law.

Adam Nicholas, one of Ms Nicholas's sons, said after the inquest that he was certain that legal highs were responsible.
He said: 'Mum had been ill on and off for years. But suddenly she started taking and getting into legal highs.
'She had been on drugs throughout her life but after she started on the legal highs she started having more and more issues.

'She was in a much darker place and was a shell of who she was.
'They can't prove they killed her as the medical evidence and research is currently not available. But a 49-year-old woman's heart does not stop for no reason.
'Directly or indirectly, we all believe legal highs were responsible for her death. People don't realise the dangers and think that because they are legal they are OK.'

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Citizens Initiative Underway To Legalize Cannabis In The European Union

Courtesy of The Joint Blog
A citizens initiative to legalize cannabis in the European Union is underway, with advocates needing to collect 1 million signatures from 7 member states within a 12 month period.

Advocates of the initiative – which was approved by the government in November – officially began their signature gathering campaign this week. If advocates are successful in gathering enough signatures, the measure would be put to a vote next year.
According to the group behind the initiative (Weed Like to Talk), it “aims at making the EU [European Union] adopt a common policy on the control and regulation of cannabis production, use and sale.”
In addition to legalizing cannabis possession, the proposal would legalize cannabis cultivation, as well as cannabis retail outlets.
The effort marks one of the most far-reaching attempts at cannabis law reform in European history.
Those in Europe can sign the initiative by clicking here, and can find out more about the proposal by clicking here.

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Mexico City Could Be Home to the Most Important Marijuana Decriminalization Effort Yet

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No country has felt the brunt of the U.S. war on drugs quite like Mexico. Since 2006, when then-President George W. Bush and then-Mexican President Felipe Calderón partnered to take on Mexico's cartels, more than 60,000 people have been violently killed in the southern neighbor of the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs.
Gruesome, often indiscriminate gang violence has been accompanied by a human rights crisis, as Mexico's security forces have bent and broken the law, sometimes in pursuit of peace, sometimes at the behest of the cartels they're supposedly fighting.

As the death toll rose, Mexican leaders railed against what appears to be a double standard: U.S. drug consumers keep Mexican cartels in business, yet Americans don't experience anywhere near the same level of violence—from gangs or their own government. (Yes, the U.S. sees lots and lots of SWAT raids on nonviolent drug law violators, but those raids don't come close to comparing to the torture and disappearances facilitated by Mexican military and law enforcement.)

"The whole thing is whether Mexico City's mayor will throw his political weight behind it."

After Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana in November 2012, opponents of the drug war in Latin and South America agreed it was time to change the drug war, not just in the U.S., but in their own countries. A joint statement from the presidents of Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and Costa Rica "strongly implied" that the liberalization of American marijuana laws would make it difficult for them enforce marijuana bans in their own countries.
Reformers in Mexico took a big step last Thursday toward ending the disparity: lawmakers in Mexico's national legislature and Mexico City's Legislative Assembly introduced twin bills to overhaul the country's drug possession and marijuana laws.

The federal bill would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes. As in the U.S., marijuana in Mexico is currently in a schedule (read: category) of drugs that are considered harmful, addictive, and have no therapeutic value, and are thus not prescribable (fun fact: American doctors even in states with medical marijuana laws are allowed only to "recommend" marijuana, not prescribe it).
If passed, Mexico's federal bill would reschedule marijuana as a drug with proven therapeutic value but known risks.
The same bill would also allow Mexican states to determine their own marijuana laws, including the creation of tax-and-regulate systems like the ones adopted by voters in Colorado and Washington.
The legislation is unique to Mexico, but the mission—establish and protect marijuana's medical value while simultaneously decentralizing the laws for recreational use—is similar to that of marijuana advocates in the U.S.
Mexico City's legislation, meanwhile, would fully decriminalize possession of less than five grams of marijuana (in the U.S., most decriminalization laws draw the line at one ounce).

"Additionally," says the Drug Policy Alliance, "the bill establishes threshold quantities for cocaine, heroin and other illicit substances, under which people who use drugs can be referred to a 'Dissuasion Committee'—based on principles of collaboration and human rights – that offers information and support to minimize the risks and harms of drug use."
The Mexico City legislation also provides for the creation of recreational marijuana dispensaries "aimed at removing people who use marijuana from the violence of the illicit market."
Much like the forthcoming dispensaries in Colorado and Washington state, the dispensaries in Mexico City wouldn't be allowed to sell other substances like alcohol and tobacco, and they couldn't be located near schools or sell to minors.
For those who remember that Mexico decriminalized drug possession in 2009, the Mexico City bill might evoke some déjà vu. Hasn't marijuana already been decriminalized there? Yes and no.

The 2009 reforms had two major impacts: The first is that it empowered states and municipalities to enforce drug laws; prior to 2012, when the 2009 bill was enacted in its entirety, enforcing drug laws in Mexico was exclusively a federal matter.
The other change the 2009 reforms initiated was the establishment of a threshold to distinguish possession for consumption from small-scale dealing. That line was drawn at "two or three joints"; anything above that was still considered small-scale dealing and punishable by a multi-year sentence.
What the law failed to do is provide for legally protected places for the purchase of marijuana (or any other drug).

Roughly 60 percent of Mexico's federal prison population is serving time for drug crimes, according to Alejandro Madrazo Lajous, a law professor at Mexico City's CIDE Law School who worked as a private consultant to help draft the two bills introduced last week. And out of that group, an estimated 38 percent were convicted of possession without intent to sell. "That is, most of them are most likely consumers, not dealers," says Lajous. "Over half of them are for marijuana only."
In light of the personal possession limits established by the 2009 bill, Mexico City's legislation is not actually much of a leap, but its creation of legal points of sale could lead to a challenge from the federal government. But in a country ravaged by black market violence that the U.S. has never really seen, it also makes sense for recreational users to have a place to buy without fear of being gunned down, decapitated, or extorted by law enforcement.

So what are the odds these bills will pass? The Los Angeles Times reports that an El Universal poll of Mexico City's 66 legislators "found that only 11 openly expressed support for the bill. Thirty were against it, and the rest were either undecided or declined to state their preference."
Lajous is more optimistic. He sees a recent letter in support of the legislation written by four former Latin American presidents as a key signal. "The whole thing is whether Mexico City's mayor, Miguel Ángel Mancera, will throw his political weight behind it," Lajous writes in an email.
"That is what will decide things."
As the city's attorney general, Mancera backed Mayor Marcelo Ebrard's pushes for gay marriage and access to abortion*. Mancera was elected mayor in 2012 and continues to support progressive policies. He reportedly supports the marijuana bill introduced last week. Whether he can guarantee its passage is another story.

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